Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. The location of homophobia
3. Re-membering Mwanga, mourning the martyrs
4. Spectres of colonialism
5. Queer in the time of homocapitalism
6. The nation and its queers
Epilogue
Bibliography
Rahul Rao is Senior Lecturer in Politics at SOAS University of London. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World, and of numerous articles in the fields of international relations, postcolonial studies, and queer theory. He is a member of the Radical Philosophy collective.
"Recommended." -- D.M. Jarrett, Morgan State University, CHOICE
"Out of Time is a breath of fresh air. In a field where many are
retreating into certainties, Rao insists that the relationships
between contexts, politics, and subjectivities remain radically
open and thoroughly contextualized. The exploration of a range of
queer sites challenges our understanding of comparative
ethnography, exemplifying the best of interdisciplinary theorizing
from fully grounded location. I loved his refusal to put
'decolonial' and
'queer' approaches against one another (politically and
methodologically), and exploration of the roots of British,
Ugandan, and Indian homophobias as both a problem of a Western gaze
and as having specific
histories (that also overlap). Rao's writing is beautiful too,
weaving theory, ethnography, history, literature, and autobiography
together in the best traditions of postcolonial queer scholarship.
This is a brilliant, timely, and important book that changes the
field." -- Clare Hemmings, London School of Economics and Political
Science
"Rao offers a wonderfully untimely engagement with the
temporalities of queer politics in the aftermath of colonialism. As
always, his work is scholarly and combines impressive breadth of
analysis with a fresh, sophisticated, and always generous approach
to questions that all too easily prompt simplistic, ungenerous
ethical and political answers. The book is rich in insights into
the fractured political temporalities of contemporary international
society and is
a must-read for anyone interested in the current times of world
politics." -- Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of
London
"Sitting at the intersection of anthropology, international
relations, queer theory and postcolonial studies--but being not
entirely within any field--this excellent and refreshing book
throws up many new questions. Rahul Rao's voice is engaging without
being hectoring, and he explores his topic with nuance, speaking to
activist concerns." -- Arvind Narrain, Alternative Law Forum
"This brilliantly-visioned book breaks open the now-stultified
debates about sexuality and statecraft. Taking the temporal pulses
from the postcolonies, Rao upends the presumed trajectories of
normative queer theorizing. A tour de force." -- Jasbir K. Puar,
Rutgers University
"Timely and important, Rao's Out of Time will sit alongside the
work of Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages and Lisa Duggan's The
Twilight of Equality as one of those must-read texts on every queer
studies syllabus. It is that good." -- Cynthia Weber, University of
Sussex
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